]]>/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=83900P. Virgilii Maronis opera : ISBN /cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=83902
By Virgil..
[Hague : s.n., 1757
. 2v. :
, Title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces, and historiated initials by G.M. Pitteri after Fidance and C.F. de La Traverse. | Vol V. index by Christoph Saxius. | Vol. V has imprint "aere & sumtibus Guilielmi Iustice, Henr.F." and William Justice's dedication to Catherine II the Great of Russia, dated The Hague, 1765. | Parts of the book published posthumously, Justice is thought to have died in the Hague in 1763, "Henry Justice, a Cambridge book thief", Cambridge Bibliographical Society transactions, 1952 (p.357) | Re-issued in Brussells by J.L. De Boubers [1800.] | The two volumes are most likely to have been printed in Holland between 1757 and 1765 however, Bibliotheca Parrianna: A catalogue of the library of the late reverend and learned Samuel Parr, (London: John Bohn, 1825) states; 'This book was printed in Italy, to which country the editor retired, when he had been prosecuted by the University of Cambridge for stealing books [1736], and his sentence had been changed from transportation to exile for life. He had been a member of Trinity College; he had a good fortune; he had been a magistrate in Suffolk; and with little chance of detection in a foreign land, he described himself as a Toparch and a squire."
24 cm. (8°).